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  • Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.
  • Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

    "Oh Canada" l. 1 (1965)
  • In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.223, e-artnow
  • In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.

    Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.
  • Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

    'The Soul of Man under Socialism'
  • If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.131, Aristotle
  • It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Time  
  • Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  • The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

    Funny   Trust   Witty  
    Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks
  • The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court martial, I have been sentenced to death. I have served the Republic faithfully, and my death, as well as that of my brother, a victim like myself, and condemned in the same manner about a month ago, will sufficiently prove it. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

    Brother   Children   Men  
  • Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt's address in Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.
  • Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

    William Blackstone, Robert Kerr (1873). “Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books by William Blackstone; Abridged and Adapted to the Present State of the Law by Robert Malcolm Kerr”, p.25
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